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Norman Gradwell's experience from D-Day+9 with the Black Watch regiment

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posted on 2024-06-05, 18:09 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

My dad Norman Gradwell enlisted in the Black Watch regiment in 1943. After training he embarked for the continent on D-Day+9. After vicious fighting through the Falaise gap [pocket], he was wounded, eventually being sent home. After convalescing he was back in the regiment. He fought through Holland into Germany. He was wounded again on the Holland-Germany border in February 1945. He was transferred from the Black Watch to the Imps, the Lincolnshire regiment after VE Day. He was then transferred to the Warwickshire regiment and was on duty for six months at the Nuremberg trials. He was demobbed in 1946.

History

Item list and details

Three letters from the Ministry of Defence to my dad's parents informing them of their son reported missing and found shortly after; one photograph of Norman Gradwell.

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Norman Gradwell

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Colin Gradwell

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He was my father

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Shared online via the Their Finest Hour project website.

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90167